writing-changelogs

writing-changelogs is a skill for Claude Code from dork-labs/dorkos. It costs 31 tokens per session (3,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for clear changelog entries and release notes. A changelog records changes in a product, while release notes explain those changes to users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review changelog fragments, prepare release notes, check release quality, or rewrite commit messages for users.
Why use it?
It helps turn technical commit messages into descriptions people can understand. It also provides a consistent process for storing unreleased changes before publication.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the flow plugin — 43 skills, 45 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or review changelog fragments, prepare release notes, check release quality, or rewrite commit messages for users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dork-labs/dorkos/writing-changelogs
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dork-labs/dorkos --skill writing-changelogs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dork-labs/dorkos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 45 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,071 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00031 $0.03071
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00307

Measured 20d ago against content hash 24427eccd920, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-changelogs scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 20d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/writing-changelogs/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Changelogs

Write changelog entries and release notes that humans actually want to read. This skill activates when writing changelog entries, preparing GitHub releases, or reviewing release notes quality.

Sources: Keep a Changelog, Common Changelog

When to Use

  • Writing a changelog fragment for a change
  • Preparing GitHub release notes via /system:release
  • Reviewing changelog entries before release
  • Transforming commit messages into user-friendly descriptions

Where entries live: fragments

Unreleased entries do not go in CHANGELOG.md. Each change adds one fragment file under changelog/unreleased/ — a coordination-free scheme that keeps parallel worktrees from colliding on a shared [Unreleased] block (ADR 260707-231641; full guide in changelog/README.md). The workflow:

  • Filename — <YYMMDD-HHMMSS>-<kebab-slug>.md: a timestamp id from .claude/scripts/id.ts followed by a short slug. The post-commit hook names it from your commit subject.
  • Body — optional covers: frontmatter (which commits this fragment covers; the post-commit hook fills it in, and the PR check reads it so your prose stays free to be rewritten for a human), then one or more ### Category headings (Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security) with bullets written per the principles below. One fragment may carry multiple categories.
  • Creation — the post-commit hook writes a fragment from each conventional commit; curate it (or hand-author one) before opening a PR. Never edit CHANGELOG.md's [Unreleased] section — it no longer holds entries.
  • Release — /system:release compiles all fragments into the new ## [X.Y.Z] section and deletes them. Only the release process writes CHANGELOG.md.

The entry-quality guidance below applies identically to fragment bullets.

Core Principles

Changelog entries are user-facing prose, so the writing-for-humans skill sets the readability bar: 9th-grade level, one idea per sentence, benefit before mechanism, every acronym glossed. Read it first. The rules specific to changelogs:

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 20d ago Changed · +2 lines 24427eccd920
  2. 1mo ago Changed e977597633f8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 266 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 19ec95c74e18

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writing-changelogs is a skill published in the GitHub repository dork-labs/dorkos (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,071 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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